Crazy people

[Debbie]

When I was a kid my Grandmother adopted the 'crazy' cat lady who lived in our street. You know the type; lots and lots of cats, overgrown yard, dirty threadbare curtains and she smelt really bad.

How bad you ask? So bad that when she sat next to me at Sunday lunch I would hold my breath as long as I could and then breathe through my mouth so I didn't expire.

I never laughed at her though. Or pointed and stared when she was in her front yard feeding her many cats. I wasn't a goody good. I thought God might smite me if I made fun of others.

When I got older and got a part time job (while still at school) at our local supermarket I saw her slipping cat food into her voluminous handbag/carry all. She would come to the counter with a very small container of soup and when asked would say, "No. nothing else today."
I never said a word. I swear that's what she survived on. That small amount of soup and perhaps cat food.

Crazy people scare the bejesus out of me. I don't show fear or run but damn do I move as far away from them as fast as possible.

What scares me more than a crazy person is a person who thinks they are behaving perfectly normally and rationally and everyone else has the problem.

Yes, this is a passive/aggressive thread. Just in case you weren't sure.

 

[JustSkye]

I'm tellin'

 

[Debbie]

Tell Laurel on me. See if I care. I want her to tell me off!
I deserve to get into trouble.

 

[JustSkye]

Tell Laurel on me. See if I care. I want her to tell me off!
I deserve to get into trouble.

You want to get banned! Admit it!











(The hell you say! I just got you back!)

 

[Debbie]

You want to get banned! Admit it!

To be honest I'm too scared of Laurel to be too naughty. I have seen her mighty powers at work.

Once upon a time we had unregistered and one day POOF he/she was gone!
And another time a poster named ******** threads all became
One other time another poster suddenly became a guest and they could post anymore.

I try to appease her by posting cute cat pics and witticisms in the hope that she will not cast her wrath upon me.

 

[JustSkye]

To be honest I'm too scared of Laurel to be too naughty. I have seen her mighty powers at work.

Once upon a time we had unregistered and one day POOF he/she was gone!
And another time a poster named ******** threads all became
One other time another poster suddenly became a guest and they could post anymore.

I try to appease her by posting cute cat pics and witticisms in the hope that she will not cast her wrath upon me.

I do miss seeing her come around, but I'm not skeered!

It's funny seeing those frogs, too.

I had to look again. You've been here a year longer than I! (New name for me shortly after I started)

 

[IrezumiKiss]

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/gallery/4628/The_Crazies_6.jpg

http://www.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/C/Crazies_The/posters/The%20Crazies%20movie%20poster.jpg

This flick. Good stuff.

 

[orchidhunter]

When I was a kid my Grandmother adopted the 'crazy' cat lady who lived in our street. You know the type; lots and lots of cats, overgrown yard, dirty threadbare curtains and she smelt really bad.

How bad you ask? So bad that when she sat next to me at Sunday lunch I would hold my breath as long as I could and then breathe through my mouth so I didn't expire.

I never laughed at her though. Or pointed and stared when she was in her front yard feeding her many cats. I wasn't a goody good. I thought God might smite me if I made fun of others.

When I got older and got a part time job (while still at school) at our local supermarket I saw her slipping cat food into her voluminous handbag/carry all. She would come to the counter with a very small container of soup and when asked would say, "No. nothing else today."
I never said a word. I swear that's what she survived on. That small amount of soup and perhaps cat food.

Crazy people scare the bejesus out of me. I don't show fear or run but damn do I move as far away from them as fast as possible.

What scares me more than a crazy person is a person who thinks they are behaving perfectly normally and rationally and everyone else has the problem.

Yes, this is a passive/aggressive thread. Just in case you weren't sure.

i think ive just read a brilliant example of irony..........a poster on lit including self in the ranks of the "normals"...........lol
who the fuck are these normals of which you speak?

 

[pink]

There is a crazy lady who lives in my neighborhood. She has a ton of cats and rides her bike in the middle of winter. i know it's not very nice to refer to her as crazy lady but we do.

 

[tactful]

And here,
I thought,
we have the only one,
in our neighborhood.

 

[virtualmachine]

Guy around work here lives in the bathroom at the gas station down the street. Wanders about collecting cigarette butts in 5 gallon plastic pails. Has rows and rows of them down by the rail tracks. In the summer, he walks around with plastic bags wrapped around his hands and sweeps the sidewalks for blocks and blocks. He gets hand-outs from a bunch of different places like the deli that gives him the pizza nobody bought when they close and the bakery that gives him day old bread for him and the pigeons he feeds.

He's gotten better. Years ago he was prone to running around the neighborhood chasing people with a fire axe. He's mellowed with age.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

I know a whole forum full of crazy people. Sometimes it's a relief to go elsewhere where people aren't so fucked in the head.

Namely, everywhere else...

 

[butters]

and still i stare...

her hands, her dress, her hair
all fail
to tear my gaze aside

from eyes
whose sadness is a shockwave
breaking over me

they say she's crazy

 

[JohnnySavage]

...
What scares me more than a crazy person is a person who thinks they are behaving perfectly normally and rationally and everyone else has the problem.

....

I know a whole forum full of crazy people. Sometimes it's a relief to go elsewhere where people aren't so fucked in the head.

Namely, everywhere else...

Ummm.... Try not to be scared Debbie!

 

[Image]

To be honest I'm too scared of Laurel to be too naughty. I have seen her mighty powers at work.
I try to appease her by posting cute cat pics and witticisms in the hope that she will not cast her wrath upon me.

Did you just call Laurel a crazy cat lady?

 

[Image]

Guy around work here lives in the bathroom at the gas station down the street. Wanders about collecting cigarette butts in 5 gallon plastic pails. Has rows and rows of them down by the rail tracks. In the summer, he walks around with plastic bags wrapped around his hands and sweeps the sidewalks for blocks and blocks. He gets hand-outs from a bunch of different places like the deli that gives him the pizza nobody bought when they close and the bakery that gives him day old bread for him and the pigeons he feeds.

He's gotten better. Years ago he was prone to running around the neighborhood chasing people with a fire axe. He's mellowed with age.

Who's crazier though? The people who throw the butts on the ground or the guy who cleans them up?

Think about it...

 

[Batch]

Who's crazier though? The people who throw the butts on the ground or the guy who cleans them up?

Think about it...

The axe chasing bit kinda makes him win the crazier award...

 

[Cheyenne]

When I was a kid my Grandmother adopted the 'crazy' cat lady who lived in our street. You know the type; lots and lots of cats, overgrown yard, dirty threadbare curtains and she smelt really bad.

How bad you ask? So bad that when she sat next to me at Sunday lunch I would hold my breath as long as I could and then breathe through my mouth so I didn't expire.

I never laughed at her though. Or pointed and stared when she was in her front yard feeding her many cats. I wasn't a goody good. I thought God might smite me if I made fun of others.

When I got older and got a part time job (while still at school) at our local supermarket I saw her slipping cat food into her voluminous handbag/carry all. She would come to the counter with a very small container of soup and when asked would say, "No. nothing else today."
I never said a word. I swear that's what she survived on. That small amount of soup and perhaps cat food.

Crazy people scare the bejesus out of me. I don't show fear or run but damn do I move as far away from them as fast as possible.

What scares me more than a crazy person is a person who thinks they are behaving perfectly normally and rationally and everyone else has the problem.

Yes, this is a passive/aggressive thread. Just in case you weren't sure.

So who in your life now is crazy but thinks that it is the rest of the world that is off, not them?

 

[TurdFergeson]

The other day it was so nice out I was driving with the window down.

I was downtown going slowly, and heard screaming.

What the hell? I looked and it was just a lady pushing a grocery cart, screaming obscenities, at nobody.

 

[lass714]

You wanna experience this in larger numbers just hit NYC........ I've seen everything from grown men picking dirt off the ground and eating it to women wearing tin foil hats to a guy who built himself his own condo out of cardboard....

 

[Debbie]

Ummm.... Try not to be scared Debbie!

I'll try not to be.

Did you just call Laurel a crazy cat lady?

She is one of the very few non crazy cat ladies. Laurel has a heart of furry gold when it comes to the kitties.

So who in your life now is crazy but thinks that it is the rest of the world that is off, not them?

No one in my real life. (Dreading to name names in case she appears.)

NotNowHunny . <Waiting for her to visit>

 

[ksmybuttons]

Community. Thank goodness for you grandmother.

I've found through the years that I can't help them if they don't want it. Giving food is the best I can do and really the only thing that is acceptable.

Even here, the best we can do for the real crazy ones is to not feed into their craziness and leave them alone or we just enable and support their craziness.

Sad.

The last thing they need is to be on a board like this...

 

[Radiohead]

I'm older than all you bastards, and I'm still scared.

And I miss my sweet tweet, every day.

 

[Angeline]

To be honest I'm too scared of Laurel to be too naughty. I have seen her mighty powers at work.

Once upon a time we had unregistered and one day POOF he/she was gone!
And another time a poster named ******** threads all became
One other time another poster suddenly became a guest and they could post anymore.

I try to appease her by posting cute cat pics and witticisms in the hope that she will not cast her wrath upon me.

I once saw her turn three newbs into newts.

I like crazy people, I have always been drawn to them probably because they make me think and then I write. I wrote a poem that well I really like about this crazy guy I used to drive by every day on my way to or home from work. I'd always see him walking and he became some kinda metaphor for me. But I do try to stay clear of the smelly ones.

 

[ErinGoBraless]

Ever since my best gal pal lost her husband in 2003 she has turned into the crazy lady with too many cats.
I told her, I said, "Girlfriend, you done become the apitomy of the dreaded crazy cat lady." and then she actually laughed like one too.